Is July 28 a rare birthday? Popular

More common than 79% of all 366 dates.

July 28 #76
Most commonSeptember 9RarestDecember 25
Cartoon birthday scene for July 28: a child behind a cake whose candles spell the date
At a glance

July 28 in numbers

The odds, the star sign and the other dates that come with it.

Born each year≈ 11,317in the United States — about 976,000 of them are alive today
In a full stadium143 peopleof 50,000 were born on July 28
On the day itselfEvery 8 secondsa baby is born on July 28 somewhere in the United States
Star signLeorarer than 22 of the 31 Leo birthdays
Half-birthdayJanuary 28six months later, to the day
Conceived aroundNovember 4Right around Halloween.
Birth frequency by rank

Where July 28 ranks

From most common birthday to rarest, July 28 ranks in position #76, with 11,317 births a year. 290 other dates are rarer. 51 dates are within 1% of its count, anywhere from #44 to #95, so the exact position is a close thing.

56 years of records

July 28 through the years

Where it ranked in the United States, year by year.

Fell on a weekdayOn a weekend
rarestmost
common
1969, Monday: rank #82 of 365, 10,548 births1970, Tuesday: rank #8 of 365, 11,858 births1971, Wednesday: rank #100 of 365, 10,330 births1972, Friday: rank #78 of 366, 9,506 births1973, Saturday: rank #251 of 365, 8,424 births1974, Sunday: rank #291 of 365, 7,872 births1975, Monday: rank #61 of 365, 9,373 births1976, Wednesday: rank #109 of 366, 9,164 births1977, Thursday: rank #67 of 365, 9,826 births1978, Friday: rank #27 of 365, 10,324 births1979, Saturday: rank #243 of 365, 9,418 births1980, Monday: rank #46 of 366, 10,926 births1981, Tuesday: rank #5 of 365, 11,479 births1982, Wednesday: rank #39 of 365, 11,235 births1983, Thursday: rank #30 of 365, 11,037 births1984, Saturday: rank #262 of 366, 9,470 births1985, Sunday: rank #293 of 365, 8,941 births1986, Monday: rank #61 of 365, 11,372 births1987, Tuesday: rank #11 of 365, 12,043 births1988, Thursday: rank #33 of 366, 12,195 births1989, Friday: rank #33 of 365, 12,699 births1990, Saturday: rank #266 of 365, 10,211 births1991, Sunday: rank #320 of 365, 9,148 births1992, Tuesday: rank #15 of 366, 12,753 births1993, Wednesday: rank #28 of 365, 12,511 births1994, Thursday: rank #24 of 365, 12,539 births1995, Friday: rank #32 of 365, 12,442 births1996, Sunday: rank #323 of 366, 8,227 births1997, Monday: rank #175 of 365, 11,465 births1998, Tuesday: rank #11 of 365, 12,919 births1999, Wednesday: rank #33 of 365, 12,803 births2000, Friday: rank #77 of 366, 12,654 births2001, Saturday: rank #271 of 365, 8,952 births2002, Sunday: rank #321 of 365, 7,812 births2003, Monday: rank #177 of 365, 12,262 births2004, Wednesday: rank #64 of 366, 13,041 births2005, Thursday: rank #55 of 365, 13,387 births2006, Friday: rank #77 of 365, 13,718 births2007, Saturday: rank #265 of 365, 9,171 births2008, Monday: rank #180 of 366, 12,902 births2009, Tuesday: rank #11 of 365, 13,951 births2010, Wednesday: rank #81 of 365, 12,674 births2011, Thursday: rank #35 of 365, 13,006 births2012, Saturday: rank #269 of 366, 8,423 births2013, Sunday: rank #324 of 365, 7,462 births2014, Monday: rank #88 of 365, 12,469 births2015, Tuesday: rank #8 of 365, 13,240 births2016, Thursday: rank #39 of 366, 12,690 births2017, Friday: rank #49 of 365, 12,361 births2018, Saturday: rank #265 of 365, 8,466 births2019, Sunday: rank #313 of 365, 7,443 births2020, Tuesday: rank #42 of 366, 11,580 births2021, Wednesday: rank #64 of 365, 11,666 births2022, Thursday: rank #22 of 365, 11,998 births2023, Friday: rank #98 of 365, 11,147 births2024, Sunday: rank #319 of 366, 7,219 births1970198019902000201020202024

On a weekend it slips to #287, from #57 on a working day

Inductions and planned caesareans are booked on working days, so 28.2% fewer babies arrive and the date falls down the ranking. Each bar is the average rank of the years it landed on that day.

#109
Mon
#14
Tue
#65
Wed
#38
Thu
#59
Fri
#262
Sat
#313
Sun
Most common year
1981#5 of 365Tuesday · 11,479 births
Rarest year
2013#324 of 365Sunday · 7,462 births
Weekend years
16 of 5629% of the record2024 was the most recent
Around the world

July 28 in other countries

July 28 is the 76th most common birthday in the United States. It is among the 50 most common in 7 of the 26 other countries, and ranges from #9 in Belgium to #357 in Peru.

  1. Belgium

    #9 of 366

    348 births on an average July 28

    Statbel, 1992–⁠2025
  2. Slovenia

    #16 of 366

    59 births on an average July 28

    SURS, 2000–⁠2025
  3. Finland

    #17 of 366

    150 births on an average July 28

    Statistics Finland, 2010–⁠2025
  4. Germany

    #22 of 366

    2,245 births on an average July 28

    Destatis, 2014–⁠2025
  5. Hungary

    #31 of 366

    347 births on an average July 28

    KSH, 1970–⁠2020
  6. France

    #43 of 366

    2,238 births on an average July 28

    INSEE, 1998–⁠2024
  7. England & Wales

    #49 of 366

    1,837 births on an average July 28

    ONS, 1995–⁠2025
  8. Ireland

    #51 of 366

    174 births on an average July 28

    CSO, 1980–⁠2023
  9. Latvia

    #52 of 366

    57 births on an average July 28

    CSB, 1996–⁠2025
  10. Netherlands

    #60 of 366

    523 births on an average July 28

    CBS, 1995–⁠2025
  11. Denmark

    #65 of 366

    175 births on an average July 28

    Statistics Denmark, 2007–⁠2025
  12. Japan

    #65 of 366

    2,893 births on an average July 28

    e-Stat, 1996–⁠2025
  13. Switzerland

    #74 of 366

    228 births on an average July 28

    FSO, 1969–⁠2025
  14. Norway

    #75 of 366

    165 births on an average July 28

    SSB, 2011–⁠2025
  15. New Zealand

    #87 of 366

    160 births on an average July 28

    Stats NZ, 1980–⁠2023
  16. Mexico

    #129 of 366

    5,150 births on an average July 28

    INEGI, 2017–⁠2023
  17. Costa Rica

    #156 of 366

    169 births on an average July 28

    INEC Costa Rica, 2014–⁠2024
  18. Portugal

    #156 of 366

    299 births on an average July 28

    INE Portugal, 1980–⁠2025
  19. Philippines

    #172 of 366

    4,449 births on an average July 28

    PSA, 2006–⁠2024
  20. Ecuador

    #179 of 366

    763 births on an average July 28

    INEC, 2013–⁠2023
  21. Malaysia

    #223 of 366

    1,385 births on an average July 28

    DOSM, 2000–⁠2022
  22. Brazil

    #241 of 366

    7,793 births on an average July 28

    DATASUS, 1997–⁠2024
  23. Guatemala

    #270 of 366

    923 births on an average July 28

    INE Guatemala, 2018–⁠2024
  24. Chile

    #330 of 366

    666 births on an average July 28

    DEIS, 1990–⁠2017
  25. Argentina

    #334 of 366

    1,348 births on an average July 28

    DEIS, 2018–⁠2023
  26. Peru

    #357 of 366

    1,069 births on an average July 28

    INEI, 2019–⁠2025
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July against the other eleven

July 28 is the 10th rarest of the 31 days in July. All July birthdays.

July is the 3rd most common month of the year

An average July day sees 11,238 births in the United States. September is the busiest month, January the quietest.

July 28 is the 7th rarest of the 15 days around it

The whole year

Every date on one grid

In the United States, September is the busiest month of the year to be born in and January the quietest.

Each square is one date

July 28#76 of 36611,317 births a year

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Quick answers

How many babies are born on July 28?

About 11,317 a year in the United States. It was at its most common in 1981, when 11,479 babies were born and it ranked #5 of 365; at its rarest in 2013, with 7,462 births at #324.

Is July 28 a common birthday?

In the United States, July 28 is the 76th most common of 366 dates, with about 11,317 births a year. That puts it among the more common birthdays.

What is the rarest July birthday?

In the United States, July 4: the 4th rarest of all 366 dates, with about 8,692 births a year. The most common July birthday is July 7, the 5th most common of the year.

How precise is the ranking?

In the middle of the calendar it is not exact. 51 other dates are within 1% of July 28's count, spread from #44 to #95, so the position inside that group would shift with a different set of years. That band is the accurate answer; the rank is the simple one. At the ends — Christmas Day, New Year's Day — nothing is close.

Is July 28 rarer in other countries?

In some. It is rarer in 12 of the 26 other countries we hold daily records for. It is at its rarest in Peru, at #357 of 366, and at its most common in Belgium, at #9.

Our data

How this is counted

Every date is ranked by how many babies are born on it in the United States. Live births by day of birth from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, 1989–⁠2024.

Read the full methodology →

Updated October 2026